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“the freedom to consume the service I am paying for however I see fit” sure sounds like complete freedom.

Gemini flash tells me to drive: “Unless you have a very long hose or you've invented a way to teleport the dirt off the chassis, you should probably drive. Taking the car ensures it actually gets cleaned, and you won't have to carry heavy buckets of soapy water back and forth across the street.”

If by “learned” you mean Ukraine and soon Taiwan, then yes.

Or the wealthy are pulling up the average and most of the rest are not “growing the economy” with increased productivity.


Capitalists earn money through control of capital. They're actually parasites that extract all the labour and value from others below them in the system. Capital is taxed lower than labour in most developed countries, at every turn capital is advantaged at the expense of living beings. There is no positive morality in this system of mass impoverishment.


I think we should put this to the test. The working class stops working for a week/month and we'll see how "productive" the rich capitalists really are.


The iPhone 16 was released 16 months ago, not “nearly” 24 months.


> My optimism is at best minimized because very few countries that were "liberated" are thriving vs most that remain in chaos or deadlocked into stagnation.

Which countries that are thriving do you think were not “liberated”? The US has done well, and King George III did not depart willingly.


Britain distinctly claims part ownership of a foreign county, which had complicated trade with said country and its trade union.


And a lot more expensive per book than buying, digitizing, and destroying the physical copy. Which was ruled legal.


South Korea. And Eastern Europe in the 80s.


Which Eastern European nations did the US build in the 80s?


You are asking to severely damage the economy of the country providing your defense umbrella, when your continent is mired in a 3+ year land war.


Is that defense umbrella actually real? Over the last year the US acted less and less as an ally to the point I wouldn't trust to actually help out in case of an attack


Remind me again how committed the current administration is to providing a defense umbrella? Have they said anything interesting about it lately?


Keep up. US is not an an ally to any European nation any more.


The US is the only organisation in NATO to ever invoke Article 5.


US is trying to give Ukrainian land away for free to pacify Russia. EU ignored Crimea and Georgia. It didn't work. It won't work now, either.


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